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ROUNDS


TMA Fall Conference coming in October


Plan an event for Influenza Awareness Day


Come home to TMA PPACA employer mandate delayed Website helps you save babies TMA Foundation elects new leaders


Flappers and gangsters raise funds for TMA programs


Saving Hearts — Saving Lives exhibit closing soon


Final Decisions: Tell us your stories Eight medical liability myths Ask the TMA Knowledge Center


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20 Gone to Texas


COVER PHOTO BY MATT RAINWATERS


RETOUCHING BY ALLISON HUGHES


A decade has passed since TMA won landmark reforms of the state’s medical liability system. The result has been more physicians practicing in Texas, thus improving patients’ access to care, and dramatically lower liability insurance premiums for physicians. BY CRYSTAL ZUZEK


September 2013 TEXAS MEDICINE 1


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